/lit/ - Literature

Which books did you stop reading midway through? Why?

>>8651979
>Harris is racist - specifically, he's an Islamophobe

>>7137976
>we talk about philosophers.

>>6958427
>Ruggles was the name of a Cornell English professor in the early fifties. Clearly the inspiration comes from there.

>New York Review of Books

"The conflict between men and women is brutal. 'The normal fuck,' writes Andrea Dworkin, 'by a normal man is taken to be an act of invasion and ownership undertaken in a mode of predation.' This special insight into the sexual psychology of males is matched and confirmed by the sexual experience of women:

'Women have been chattels to men as wives, as prostitutes,
as sexual and reproductive servants. Being owned and
being fucked are or have been virtually synonymous
experiences in the lives of women. He owns you; he fucks
you. The fucking conveys the quality of ownership: he
owns you inside out.'

Dworkin and her colleague, Catharine MacKinnon, then call for the censorship of pornography on postmodern grounds. Our social reality is constructed by the language we use, and pornography is a form of language, one that constructs a violent and domineering reality for women to submit to. Pornography, therefore, is not free speech but political oppression." --Explaining Postmodernism (http://www.libertarianismo.org/livros/srchpostmodernism.pdf))

Postmodernism is truly a work of evil Marxism; PoMo kids want to ban beauty, and the relationship between the sexes is part of beauty. Although sex is sacred, pornography is a great thing about contemporary Liberal society, it really is art: an expression of human passion and erotica. And how can we live in a free society if we ban pornography? that is, either real life depictions of consenting adult(s) or characters in drawings. Without God Leftists feel that they can rewrite humanity to make everyone the "New Soviet Man"; they are not bound by any religious authority that dictates how humanity should be, so they are free to dress boys up like little girls and tell the little girls to play with toy guns and trucks... I am not really concerned with follow a spiritual view, but I am sure that I do not hate God, yet Leftists?--they certainly hate God.

>First the Boeotians, led by Peneleos, Leitus, Arcesilaus, Prothoenor and Clonius; they came from Hyrie and stony Aulis, from Schoenus, Scolus and high-ridged Eteonus; from Thespeia and Graea, and spacious Mycalessus; from the villages of Harma, Eilesium and Erythrae; from Eleon, Hyle, Peteon, Ocalea and Medeon’s stronghold; from Copae, Eutresis, and dove-haunted Thisbe; from Coroneia and grassy Haliartus, Plataea and Glisas, and the great citadel of Thebes; from sacred Onchestus, Poseidon’s bright grove; from vine-rich Arne, Mideia, holy Nisa and coastal Anthedon. They captained fifty ships, each with a hundred and twenty young men.

>>6498499
>Other aspect of the poem that is annoying is the constant mention to people and facts that were contemporary to Dante and meaningful at that time, but that don’t mean anything to us.

>her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home

>individuality

Infinite Jest

Some guy having an interview to get into a Tennis Academy or some shit like I give a fuck

>>5507346
>This is sexist because

>>5406489
>white

>ITT: A author's best work
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>>4950027
>Are “trigger warnings” ...

>>4926673
>Pascal's wager

>it's a story about two girls

>>4752976
>neo-reactionary
Way to give yourself away as a state-monopoly capitalist. Didja just get off the boat from Revleft?

>>4595253
>As a liberal

>>4579015
>current scientific trend to see the Universe as a simulation

>Frodo was useless. He wasn't even that good of a ring bearer, it took Bilbo decades to be fully corrupted by the ring and
>>>/tv/

>>4446187
>Psychological projection was conceptualized by Sigmund Freud

>>4291772
>disintegration of the west

> blade runner a shit